Tip for shoe-lacings.



(Application led ian, 10, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.

WALTER L. ADAMS, CE NOEWICH, CONNECTICUT.

TIP FOR SHOE-LACINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,632, dated.November 4, 1902.

Application tiled January 10. 1902. Serial No. 89,179. (No nodel.)

T0 a/ZZ whom/.it Wray concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER L. ADAMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Norwich, in the county of New London and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Tipsfor Shoe- Lacings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The chief object of this invention is to provide in a cheap andpractical manner a metallic tip or tag Afor shoeand corset lacings,which tip shall be of extraordinary stiffness and capable of beingreadily molded to form a tapered end. The novel stifeniug element whichI have provided serves also to bind the metallic tip very securely onthe lacing.

Theaccompanyng drawings illustrate my invention, Figure 1 being a Viewof a portion of a lacing having secured thereto a tip of myvimprovedconstruction; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of thesame, taken on the line 2 2 of said Fig. 1. In Fig. 3 I have shown planand end views of a metallic blank, considerably enlarged, having astiiiening-rib formed by swaging the surrounding stock away from saidrib, thus reducin g the plate or body portion of said blank to theproper thickness for rolling around the lacing. In Fig. 4 I haveillustrated a blank formed from sheet-st0ck of proper thickness to bethus rolled upon the lacing, the stiften ing-rib being punched uptherefrom.

In the drawings, a denotes the lacing, and

b the finished tip. Said tip is formed from a plate b' of sheet-brass orother suitable mallterial, having a longitudinal rib c formed throughouta portion only of its length, as seen in Figs. 3 aude. Said rib may beformed in any practical manner.

' In the operation of attaching the tip to the lacing the latter is laidupon the rib c, and one edge of the plate b is then folded over upon thelacing, thus forcing the latter into close engagement with the rib. Theopposite edge of the plate is then folded over upon the first-namededge, substantially as seen in Fig. 2, and the tip is rolled down andmolded, so as to taper its en ds, as at b2, thus clasping more firmlythe tip upon the lacing and providing a reduced free end that may bereadily entered in an eyelet-hole.

The rib c aids in securing the tip and lacing together; but it alsoserves the more valuable purpose of stilening the said tip.

Having described my invention, I claim- In combination with a lacing, atip rolled upon said lacing, said tip being formed with a longitudinalrib extending throughouta por tion only of the length of the said tip.

Signed at Norwich, Connecticut, this 27th day of December, 1901.

WALTER L. ADAMS.

Witnesses:

FRANK H. ALLEN, FRANK S. DEWIEE.

